Therapeutic Segment Lead, Intensive Care

Overview

Description

Therapeutic Segment Lead, Intensive Care

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring a wide range of talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab to Life®.

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Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

Job Responsibilities

The Therapeutic Segment Lead, Intensive Care provides scientific, operational, and strategic leadership for clinical development programs within the Intensive Care segment of the CMIC therapeutic area. This role supports the successful delivery of complex, high-acuity studies and strengthens organizational capability in critical care research, including sepsis, acute respiratory failure, hemodynamic instability, shock, and emergency medicine–aligned interventions.

As a segment-level leader, the Therapeutic Segment Lead partners closely with project delivery teams, functional leaders, medical experts, and clients to ensure high-quality execution, proactive risk mitigation, and optimized scientific strategy. The role contributes to pre-award activities, portfolio oversight, client engagement, and internal capability-building initiatives that advance Syneos Health’s position as a leading partner in critical care clinical research.

Success in this role is measured by delivery excellence, client satisfaction, scientific credibility, and the advancement of critical care capabilities across the organization.

Pre-Award

• Provides overall strategy and direction of clinical trials for a therapeutic portfolio, including processes and procedures.
• Acts as Scientific Director / consultant as required by the needs of the projects.
• Acts as a primary senior-level contact for customers.
• Participates in customer proposals, RFIs, presentations, proposal defenses and Steering Committees.
• Provides scientific/regulatory oversight and project/therapeutic training to project teams.
• Interacts and collaborates with the Medical Writing department in the preparation of clinical development plans, protocols, investigator brochures, and medical/clinical reports, as required.
• Responsible for coordinating the acquisition of necessary medical/scientific input from outside experts/consultants/advisors.
• Represents the Company by attending industry meetings, speaking engagements, participating in booth exhibitions, etc., and by publishing scientific or industry related articles in industry journals.
• Participates in the development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), medical/scientific tools, training, staffing requirements, etc.
• Interacts with senior management and contributes scientific/medical input to other departments, as appropriate

Executive Client Management & Business Development:

• Serve as the senior-most operational leader and strategic advisor for top-tier clients, fostering trusted executive relationships.
• Develop and implement strategic client engagement plans to drive long-term partnerships and organizational growth.
• Lead executive governance, resolving high-impact escalations and…